‘To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer’s craft. His central problem is a simple one: what shall he include, what shall he reject? The line of decision between in and out is the picture’s edge. While the draughtsman starts with the middle of the sheet, the photographer starts with the frame. The photograph’s edge defines content. It isolates unexpected juxtapositions. By surrounding two facts, it creates a relationship. The edge of the photograph dissects familiar forms, and shows their unfamiliar fragment. It creates the shapes that surround objects. The photographer edits the meanings and the patterns of the world through an imaginary frame. This frame is the beginning of his picture’s geometry. It is to the photograph as the cushion is to the billiard table.’Q. What does John Szarkowski mean when he says that photographers are quoting ‘out of context’ when they make photographic pictures?
Q. The frame often ‘dissects familiar forms’. At the end of the last century photography was having a major impact on Art. Impressionist artists such as Degas were influenced by what they saw. Look at these examples of Degas work, which clearly shows the influence of Photography, and explain why the public might have been shocked to see such paintings.
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Q1: What John Szarkowski means when he says that photographers are quoting ‘out of context’ when they make photographic pictures is that photographers do not show the full context of what is happening. They only get one little snapshot of what is happening in front of them, can only fill their frame. They cannot show what had happened before the photo or after the photo in that same photo. It is like taking a quote out of context, you are not giving all the information and are trying to get someone to think a certain way. It goes the same with photography, expect one would be trying to get people to see a certain thing rather than think a certain way.
Q2: The public might have been shocked to see these paintings that were influenced by what they saw because it was something that is brand new. Most people were probably used to seeing paintings of people who were posing or looking directly at the viewer, so when paintings of people "in action" started showing up, it was unexpected. Degas was showing what he honestly thought about the public, which included people in the lower class, who were usually not painted.
This painting was obviously influenced by photography because it is not a painting of people in a pose. Those were are painted are seemingly not aware of the being painted, much like one would not be aware of having their photograph taken. People are talking and continuing with their daily lives without stopping to sit up straight and pose for the painting as people using would. They are simply out living their lives without noticing that they are being painted.
Q2: The public might have been shocked to see these paintings that were influenced by what they saw because it was something that is brand new. Most people were probably used to seeing paintings of people who were posing or looking directly at the viewer, so when paintings of people "in action" started showing up, it was unexpected. Degas was showing what he honestly thought about the public, which included people in the lower class, who were usually not painted.
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| "At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec |
This painting was obviously influenced by photography because it is not a painting of people in a pose. Those were are painted are seemingly not aware of the being painted, much like one would not be aware of having their photograph taken. People are talking and continuing with their daily lives without stopping to sit up straight and pose for the painting as people using would. They are simply out living their lives without noticing that they are being painted.
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